Information is the lifeblood that fuels that creativity. Information on the outside world, information on the competition and information on the current performance of your own organization. From this a strategy needs to be defined, deployed and translated into mid term plans and executable actions. These plans need to be confirmed and adjusted by rolling forecasts and actual performance needs to be measured and compared to the progress of plans. The organization needs to learn from what is happening in order improve the quality, speed and reliability of the next planning cycle.
We are now one of the leading integrator of BI solutions with highly innovative approaches. Over 1000 specialists deliver high value BI solutions to our customers on a day to day basis
Atos Origin was one of the first multi national system integrators who recognized the value of delivering BI solutions to its customers with specialized service delivery units. Atos Origin treats the delivery of BI as a "demand driven information logistic process in which data residing in internal and external systems is extracted from those systems, collected, checked, integrated, pre-processed, stored and distributed to and presented in the actual BI applications"
We cover all activities from setting up a BI strategy for an enterprise up to delivering change management on the end result. We also perform all activities to arrange metat data management, master data management and supporting day to day operational support.
Solutions range from simple point solutions providing reporting fuctionality on top of (e.g.) an ERP implementation (OLAP) to solutions to generate an integral customer profile to enable the organization to maximize the value of each and every customer (Customer Intelligence), via solutions supporting full closed loop performance management systems based on rolling forecast applications.
In most organizations BI application development and data warehouse implementations tended to be conducted in highly decentralized manner, leading to proliferation with different (overlapping) data warehouses and inconsistent reporting. More recently organizations are implementing more centralized governance models. To enable a smooth transition from such a decentralized to a more centralized model we developed a special service: The Atos Origin Data warehouse Lifecycle Cost Management service.
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Model
This model consists of a mature incremental (step by step development) and evolutionary (dealing with changing specifications) project development approach and is based on the Atos Origin Data warehouse Architecture Reference Model. The project methodology covers all activities from setting up a BI strategy for the enterprise up to delivering change management on the end result. It also includes activities to arrange meta data management, master data management and to support day to day operational support.
Atos Origin always conducts an organization’s BI project from an holistic view. We deal with the storage of data in a data warehouse, not as a goal in itself, but as a mean to an end. The role of the data warehouse in this information logistic process is to act as a de-coupling and integration point in the flow from “producer” to “consumer”. At the same the data warehouse serves as the “corporate memory”, which make it possible to produce all kind of analyses based on past, current and future data and business models.